SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
Our books may be purchased through our online store.
Or from the retailers, listed below.
Please note, the store price includes p&p within the UK.
Or from the retailers, listed below.
Please note, the store price includes p&p within the UK.
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Highfields: A Most Handsome Suburb
by David Griffiths Photography by Andrew Caveney Published December 2020 The absorbing story behind the development of Highfields, Huddersfield’s first suburb, is written by one of the town's most knowledgeable local historians. David Griffiths paints a picture of a distinctive and architecturally significant area, acknowledged today by its conservation area status. This is an outstanding companion to the author's The Villas of Edgerton. Paperback ISBN: 9780995632820 £9.95 from retailers £12.45, including p&p for UK addresses, from our website store. |
The Villas of Edgerton: Home to Huddersfield’s Victorian Elite by David Griffiths
Photography by Andrew Caveney Published June 2017 Privilege, power and privacy were of the essence in Huddersfield’s elite suburb. This illustrated history of the district’s development and its grand houses documents their Victorian and Edwardian residents’ leading roles in trade and industry, politics, education, churches, sport and more. It includes a house-by-house tour of Edgerton’s architectural heritage, still remarkably well-preserved in a mature wooded landscape. 164 pages, 21cmx21cm, paperback. ISBN 978-0-9956328-1-3. £12.95 from retailers £15.45, including p&p for UK addresses, from our website store. REVIEWS
Guardian: 'Compelling guide to the pretensions, ambitions and social mores of Huddersfield’s Victorian elite'. Yorkshire Post: 'An impressively well-researched, lavishly illustrated and stylishly designed study' |
The Old Yards of Huddersfield
by L. Browning and L.K. Senior 2nd Edition revised by Betty & Michael Hill 2004 32 pages, A5 pbk £4.50 +p&p These two booklets are available from the Civic Society store. Or from stockists or publications by post, below.
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The Buildings of Huddersfield: Five Architectural Walks
By David Wyles 2nd edition 2016. A5 paperback. ISBN: 978-0-9956328-0-6. £4.95 + p&p. |
Retailers
Children's Bookshop, 37-39 Lidget Street, Lindley HD3 3JF; Tel: 01484 658013; Email: hello@childrensbookshuddersfield.co.uk
Read, 41 Huddersfield Rd, Holmfirth HD9 3JH; Tel: 01484 688692; Email: read.holmfirth@gmail.com
Waterstones,12/13 Kingsgate Centre, King Street HD1 2QB
Children's Bookshop, 37-39 Lidget Street, Lindley HD3 3JF; Tel: 01484 658013; Email: hello@childrensbookshuddersfield.co.uk
Read, 41 Huddersfield Rd, Holmfirth HD9 3JH; Tel: 01484 688692; Email: read.holmfirth@gmail.com
Waterstones,12/13 Kingsgate Centre, King Street HD1 2QB
Joint HCS/ Huddersfield Local History Society Publication
Huddersfield Heritage Trail leaflet to download.
Huddersfield Heritage Trail leaflet to download.
Discover Huddersfield
Discover Huddersfield is a partnership of several local interest groups and organisations. It organises a programme of walks and events as well as a series of free trail leaflets, each based on a theme connected with the town’s historic, cultural and social heritage.
The 2022 walks programme will be available early in the New Year from local information points and libraries.
It includes 20 walks around the town with themes including architecture, radical history, Huddersfield's riverside and Irish and Caribbean heritage. Walks are also arranged around areas including Marsden, Birkby and Highfields.
The walks, on afternoons and evenings from March to October, usually take 1.5 to 2 hours, cost £4 per person, apart from several free walks organised in conjunction with the national Heritage Open Days festival in September, and will be available to book through Eventbrite.
Copies of the walks programme can be found at local libraries and information points, Huddersfield Railway Station and a number of other town centre outlets or by going to the Discover Huddersfield website.
In addition, a series of free trails produced by experts in their particular field are also available, in print or on the website, for those who want to discover the town for themselves.
Discover Huddersfield Chairman, Vernon O’Reilly, said: “What better way can there be of discovering the extraordinary variety and quality of our town’s heritage than by joining us on our walks?
“The walks and trails provide local people, students and visitors with an ideal opportunity to appreciate the extraordinary diversity and wealth of historic and cultural locations that have shaped Huddersfield."
Discover Huddersfield can be emailed at info@discoverhuddersfield.uk
These are the themes of current trail leaflets, which can be downloaded by going to: discoverhuddersfield.uk
Historic Buildings
Public Art
Radical Heritage
Real Ale
World War 1
Transport
Music
The Ramsden Family
European Exile Communities
Shuddersfield
Cosmopolitan Huddersfield
Caribbean Heritage
Building Stones
Birkby
University
Lindley
Civic Celebration
Huddersfield Textile Trail
Greasepaint and Limelight Act 1
